Crossing the Red Line
Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
The Middle East Policy Forum will host award-winning foreign affairs journalist Akbar Shahid Ahmed, author of Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza, on Wednesday, October 28. In a discussion moderated by Professor Marc Lynch, Ahmed will offer his powerful and authoritative account of how the Biden administration fueled atrocities in Gaza.
In vivid prose and with unparalleled access to insiders, Ahmed depicts a White House that resisted a course correction as its failures became undeniable. He probes Biden’s inner circle, whose choices fueled tens of thousands of avoidable deaths among Palestinians, Lebanese, and Israelis, torpedoed long-time standards for warfare, and created a more dangerous world for us all. The Biden administration’s decisions drove voter backlash that helped Donald Trump regain power, and established patterns of impunity that have spurred wider bloodshed under Trump.
Crossing the Red Line is an urgent reckoning with Biden’s record on Gaza that is vital to understanding historic damage to America’s standing in the world, and a period whose dark consequences will resonate globally for decades to come.
We hope you will join the Middle East Policy Forum to hear from Akbar Shahid Ahmed about his new book. This event is open to the general public and media. Copies of Crossing the Red Line will be available for purchase at the event.